Mr. Robert Percival Cook, Stationmaster at Johnsonville Railway Station, has filled the office he now holds since the early part of 1888. Mr. Cook is a son of Mr. John Herman Cook, farmer, of North Makara, who was well known for many years in Wellington as the senior partner in the firm of Cook and Son, tailors, of Lambton Quay. Born in the Empire City, in 1866, and educated at the Thorndon Public School, under Mr. Mowbray, he learned the business of a grocer at Messrs. Logan and Wallace's store, Wellington. Subsequently he was for three years in the employ of Mr. T. Whitehouse, grocer, and was afterwards with Mr. A. W. Brown. In January, 1887, Mr. Cook entered the service of the Wellington-Manawatu Railway Company as page 1069 ticket clerk on the through train between Wellington and Longburn, and twelve months later he was promoted to the position at Johnsonville, which he still retains. Mr. Cook was married in December, 1888, to a daughter of a military man, Mr. Richard Moore, of Limerick, Ireland, and has two sons and one daughter.